Lady Susan: Diplomatic Display New York Morgan Library & Museum, MS. MA 1226
other's
meaning, I resolved to have an explanationbefore it were too late.
— For any Member of your Family I must always feel a degree of affection,
&I own it would have sensibly hurt me, if my acquain::tance with Mr . De Courcy had ended so gloomily. I have now
only to say farther, that as I am con::vinced of
Frederica's having a reasonable dislike to Sir James, I shall
instantly inform him thathe must give up all hope of her. — I reproach my==self for having
ever, tho' so innocently, made herunhappy on that score. — She shall have all theretribution in my power
to make; — if she valueher own happineſs as much as I do, if she judge wisely & command herself as
she ought, she maynow be easy. at peace.––– Excuse me, my dearest Sister,for thus trespaſsing on your time, but I
owed itto my own Character; & after this
explanation Itrust I am in no danger of sinking in your
opinion."